I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a herd of cows (= a group that are together somewhere )
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We had to wait while a farmer brought a herd of cows across the bridge.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dairy
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So the farm is well set with its 1000 acres of arable and large dairy herd .
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His operation, in terms of mechanization and dairy herd management, is one of the most capital-intensive in the province.
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Milk is the dominant product from livestock farms, and beef is usually a byproduct of the dairy herd .
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It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd .
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Its main role is as a terminal sire for suckler herds or as a beef sire for dairy herds.
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The land is used intensively mainly for dairy herds producing fresh milk.
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Dairying in particular occupied the second Earl's attention and his own dairy herds were a lifelong passion.
instinct
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In my view, it's the herd instinct .
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It seems to me that the Cabinet has an obsessively self-protective herd instinct which could be its undoing.
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But there is a herd instinct .
■ VERB
follow
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But Viroli is not one simply to follow the herd .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow the herd/crowd
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All they get is sad sheep for fans ... who just follow the crowd - try and be uncontroversial.
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But Viroli is not one simply to follow the herd.
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I follow the crowd back to a coffee shop.
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The only advice from Miss Doris was to follow the crowd.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most economists and investment advisers run in a herd .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A herd of cattle or sheep is almost as easy to tend if it contains fifty animals as twenty-five.
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On patrol, game warden Jay Little Hawk discovers the bodies of a herd of mutilated deer.
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Stedman kept a herd of goats on the island opposite.
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The herd had once consisted of 150 animals.
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The Shetland's main role today is in multi-suckler herds, where their dual-purpose nature is invaluable.
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When they eventually withdrew they took with them four thousand slaves and great herds of cattle.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cowboys rounded up the steers and herded them north.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Except in the case of the stallion deliberately herding his mares, this is not a question of dominance or bullying.
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Later yet we are herded down to the basement, told to crouch and to cover our heads with our arms.
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Observe people being herded like cattle through airports and theaters.
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Protesters were surrounded by police and herded on to school buses.
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Sometimes the Scouts took the initiative, and inextremis Sergeant Juron herded his squad hastily.
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The visitors were herded into two large halls, which were once the hotel ballroom and dining room.
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They are herded here and there, and I don't think she can cope with so many children.
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William blushed a bit, so I turned his shoulders toward the staircase and herded us all in that direction.